Tennis girl pin-up’s a golden oldie now

HER bottom-flashing antics were immortalised in an image that came to define the 1970s.

Fiona Butler's bottom-flashing antics were immortalised in an image that came to define the 1970s []

Now it seems that the 18-year-old model who appeared in the famous Athena Tennis Girl poster is still happy, at 52, to bare her body.

Fiona Walker, previously Butler, has been immortalised in this life-size gold-leaf sculpture – more than three decades after hitching up her skirt for the photo. Two million copies of the poster were sold worldwide.

The mother of three, whose vital statistics have barely changed since 1976, had plaster casts made of her body for the sculpture by Ben Dearney, 47, of Bath, Somerset.

Mr Dearney, pictured at work on it, said: “It may be 30 years on but she is still in the same fantastic shape.”